NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

@NasherMuseum no. 262 / Angel of the Annunciation

DOLCI is COMING!
Thursday, August 24, 6-9 PM: Opening Event and Artist Talk

The Nasher Museum of Art is proud to present The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence, the country’s first-ever exhibition of the remarkable paintings and drawings by Carlo Dolci (1616-1687). Don’t miss this special ticketed exhibition! http://nasher.duke.edu/dolci

Nasher Reads The Prince of Los Cocuyos
Wednesday, August 16, 11 AM

Join museum staff for a group discussion of Richard Blanco’s book, The Prince of Los Cocuyos.
 
The Prince of Los Cocuyos, is Duke University’s summer reading selection for the class of 2021. The Nasher Museum's Academic Focus Gallery features an installation inspired by The Prince of Cocuyos.
 
Free with general admission.
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Visitors are encouraged, but not required, to read the book prior to discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

Nasher Creates: Kids Studio
Tuesdays in August 10 AM–Noon

Bring the family to a drop-in creative workshop for kids ages 5-10! Free with admission (kids 15 and under are always free). For groups larger than eight, please contact nashered@duke.edu to schedule a visit.

Visit our web calendar for a complete listing of the activities.

Free Film Screening: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Thursday, August 17, 7 PM

When their relationship sours, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. It is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had. This film, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, is the second collaboration between director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Complement to All Matterings of Mind. Free!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, director Michel Gondry, 1 hour and 48 minutes, rated R)

Enjoy dinner at the Nasher Museum Café before the film. For reservations, please call 919-684-6032 or book through Open Table.

Thursday, August 17, 6 PM
Join gallery guide Carin Walsh to explore the theme "hand of the artist" and then try your own hand at an art activity at the end of the tour!

We offer Highlights Tours most Thursdays (6 PM free) and Sundays (2 PM with general admission).

Sketching in the Galleries: Local artist Ben Bridgers
Saturday, August 19, 10:15 AM-Noon

Local artist Ben Bridgers will present a brief lesson and demonstration of ways to respond to art by sketching. Drawing materials will be provided.

Free with general admission.
Members always get free admission. Not a member? Join today.

Exhibition Opening Event
Thursday, August 24,

5:30 PM Cash Bar 6 PM Highlights Tour 6–9 PM Opening Party

7 PM Artist Talk
Durham artist William Paul Thomas will give a talk and demonstration on draftsmanship and portraits, inspired by the work of Carlo Dolci. The talk is free and open to all. Tickets are required for The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence. Don’t miss this special ticketed exhibition! http://nasher.duke.edu/dolci

                       

Carlo Dolci, Angel of the Annunciation (detail), early 1650s. Oil on canvas, 20 . x 15 7⁄8inches (52 cm x 40 cm). Musee du Louvre, Paris. c RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo by Rene-Gabriel Ojeda.

Paul Anthony Smith, Choppy, 2014. Unique picotage on inkjet print, 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Museum purchase, 2014.26.1. © Paul Anthony Smith. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Sketch courtesy Ben Bridgers. All other photos by J Caldwell. Video stills from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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